Because of lack of space (there not being room left on the smaller plates to engrave all the things that had happened during the sixty years (422 to 362 B.C.) Jarom had charge of the holy things) and also because his forefathers had written many things concerning the Plan of Salvation, Jarom felt that he could add no more to what had already been placed on record. His own prophesyings and his revelations he would omit, but to keep the record in proper order he would write a little.